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16 October 2024

 

Paragraph Fellowship inaugural shortlist announced

The shortlist for the inaugural Paragraph Fellowship has been announced by the new Time to Write initiative. Shortlisted works are: ‘Decadence’ by Hossein Asgari ‘The... Read more
 
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Promotions at S&S x

Simon & Schuster (S&S) Australia has announced the promotions of three staff members in the editorial team and one staff member in the finance team,... Read more
 

 

UQP acquires Field’s ‘The Eagle and the Crow’ x

University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired world rights to J M Field’s book The Eagle and the Crow, which ‘records and provides important insights... Read more
 
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Pan Macmillan acquires Kerr’s adult fiction debut x

Pan Macmillan Australia has acquired ANZ rights to Kay Kerr’s untitled adult fiction debut, via Danielle Binks of Jacinta di Mase Management. In the novel,... Read more
 

Han Kang wins Nobel Prize; McGregor, Sakr, Apolonio awarded Copyright Agency fellowships; bookshops celebrate LYBD 2024

South Korean author Han Kang has won the 2024 Nobel Prize for Literature ‘for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life’.

Also among awards news this week, the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund has announced the three recipients of its 2024 writing fellowships—Fiona Kelly McGregor (Author Fellowship; $80,000), Omar Sakr (Fellowship for Nonfiction Writing; $80,000), and Bryant Apolonio (Frank Moorhouse Fellowship for Young Writers; $10,000); Richard Flanagan’s Question 7 (Knopf) is on the shortlist for the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction; and Time to Write has announced the inaugural shortlist for the Paragraph Fellowship for literary fiction writers.

Simon & Schuster has announced promotions of three staff members in the editorial team and one staff member in the finance team, effective this month.

Meanwhile, bookshops across the country celebrated Love Your Bookshop Day last Saturday, 12 October, with a range of special events, discounts, and activities designed under this year’s theme, ‘Giving the Gift of Imagination’; two book adaptations are among the latest recipients of Screen Australia funding; fantasy and speculative fiction publisher New Dawn has formed an ‘exclusive partnership’ with Bolinda Audio for the audiobook company to publish New Dawn’s titles into the trade and library audio markets; and the Byron Writers Festival and the Sydney Rare Book Fair announced details of forthcoming events.

The Wilderness Society this week announced the winners of the 2024 Environment Award for Children’s Literature and the Karajia Award for First Nations children’s storytelling; and Writing NSW awarded its 2024 Varuna fellowship to J Marahuyo for her poetry manuscript ‘Disclosure of Violence’.

Over in the UK, four women were announced as winners of the 2024 Forward Prizes for Poetry, with Victoria Chang’s poetry collection with my back to the world (Corsair) winning the major prize.

And, in acquisitions news, Allen & Unwin acquired ANZ rights to Runt and the Diabolical Dognapping, Craig Silvey’s sequel to Runt, via Lesley Thorne at Aitken Alexander Associates, and ANZ rights to Broke Road, the second novel from Matthew Spencer, via Catherine Drayton at InkWell Management Literary Agency; University of Western Australia Publishing acquired world rights to Julianne Negri’s young adult verse novel Hunting Bears, via Danielle Binks of Jacinta di Mase Management; UQP acquired world rights to J M Field’s book The Eagle and the Crow, which ‘records and provides important insights into Indigenous ways of knowing and being, most notably the Gamilaraay kinship system’; and Pan Macmillan Australia acquired ANZ rights to Kay Kerr’s as yet untitled adult fiction debut, via Binks.

 
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Jackie French on 'Tigg and the Bandicoot Bushranger' x

With a career spanning about 30 years and over 140 books for children and adults, Jackie French loves to incorporate Australian history and nature into... Read more
 

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Jackie French recommends x

Living Art: Indonesian Artists Engage Politics, Society and History edited by Virginia Hooker [along with Elly Kent and Caroline Turner]—we are having tomorrow’s lunch together.... Read more
 

Rights round-up x

Sales Fiction Jenny Darling & Associates has sold rights to Charlotte Wood’s Stone Yard Devotional (A&U) to Sceptre (UK), Riverhead (US), Seuil (France), Kein & Aber... Read more
 

 

‘The Valley’ debuts at number four x

Top 10 bestsellers Intermezzo (Sally Rooney, Faber) Here One Moment (Liane Moriarty, Macmillan) We Solve Murders (Richard Osman, Viking) The Valley (Chris Hammer, A&U) One... Read more
 

 

The Bogan Book Club (John Larkin, Larrikin) x

When James Larwood is released from prison, his career is in tatters and his marriage is broken. His brother, Larry, throws him a lifeline in... Read more

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The Dream (Iain Ryan, Ultimo) x

Iain Ryan plunges the reader into a seedy underworld of police corruption and political scheming in his latest novel, The Dream. Set during a spiralling... Read more

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Murriyang: Song of Time (Stan Grant, Bundyi) x

In May 2023, journalist Stan Grant (Talking to My Country) stepped away from his role as host of ABC’s Q+A. His latest book, Murriyang: Song... Read more

Books+Publishing pre-publication reviews are supported by the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund.

 

 

Tigg and the Bandicoot Bushranger (Jackie French, HarperCollins) x

Jackie French once again showcases her meticulous research in an engaging historical fiction novel that will captivate upper middle-grade readers. In 1859, near the Ballarat... Read more

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Read the latest Publishers Weekly x

Books+Publishing is partnering with US trade news magazine Publishers Weekly to provide our subscribers with exclusive access to the weekly digital edition of PW magazine.... Read more
 
 
 
 

 

 

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